Eulagisca macnabi is a scale worm that occurs in the Antarctic Ocean, the Amundsen Sea and off the South Orkney Islands at depths of about 300 to 1500m. [2]
| Eulagisca macnabi | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Errantia |
| Order: | Phyllodocida |
| Family: | Polynoidae |
| Genus: | Eulagisca |
| Species: | E. macnabi
|
| Binomial name | |
| Eulagisca macnabi Pettibone, 1997[1]
| |
Description
editEulagisa macnabi most likely has 15 pairs of elytra that have a marginal fringe of papillae. It is brown-pigmented, especially on bases of parapodia and elytrophores. Lateral antennae are inserted terminally on anterior margin of prostomium. The notochaetae are distinctly thicker than the neurochaetae, but bidentate neurochaetae are absent.[2]
References
edit- ^ Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Eulagisca macnabi Pettibone, 1997. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=327571
- ^ a b Pettibone, Marian H. 1997. Revision of the scaleworm genus Eulagisca McIntosh (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) with the erection of the subfamily Eulagiscinae and the new genus Pareulagisca. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 110(4): 537–551.